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Cativolcus

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Cativolcus or Catuvolcus (died 53 BC) was one of the two kings of the Eburones, a Belgic tribe that resided between the Meuse and Rhine rivers in what is now present-day Belgium. Cativolcus shared the kingship with Ambiorix and in the winter of 54–53 BC, the two would lead an insurrection against the Romans.

For the rest of 53 BC, the Roman legions would devastate the territories of the Eburones in a punitive retaliatory campaign. The elderly Cativolcus, unable to endure the labors of war, would commit suicide by either hanging himself from a yew tree or drinking the tree's poison.